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...Democrat Nydia Velázquez yelled “bye-bye” after Lawler, one of the vulnerable New York Republicans, voted for Johnson. “I thought it was comical,” Lawler told the Financial Times....
...Layer by layer, Rego pierces the centuries-old hermetic masculine world of Christian Renaissance art....
...His blurry works, influenced as much by photography as Rembrandt and Velázquez, turned men into cuts of meat. If not enjoyable, they were now at least understandable....
...The gallery, based around Spanish Golden Age masterpieces by painters including El Greco, Velázquez, Ribera and Zurbarán, will cater for locals, academics and tourists....
...The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez, by Laura Cumming, Chatto, RRP£18.99 I read this at one go: a gripping triple narrative spinning from the Spanish Habsburg courts to 19th-century Edinburgh and...
...In a droll gesture of backhanded hat-doffing Picasso referred to Velázquez as “that bastard”....
...The violent, fluid Bacon and the stable, reassuring Moore represent mirror images of the same concerns: the reinvention of the human form following atrocity and Holocaust, and attempts to employ Christian...
...However, his long immersion in the history of European art led him to engage with earlier masters: Netherlandish painters, Titian, Grünewald, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Hals, Watteau, Ingres, Constable, and so...
...Kurt Koch, head of the Vatican department for Christian unity, has suggested the same....
...This painting has had myriad interpretations; from Titian’s commentary on pictorial technique to a Christian allegory....
...Bernini, Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Velázquez – “that viscerality” – are among his favourite Old Masters....
...Velázquez’s “Las Meninas” is recalled in Balenciaga’s ivory silk satin “Infanta” evening dress with scrolls of black velvet along the neckline and waist, and accentuated fullness over the hips....
...Courtier painters such as Titian, Van Dyck, Rubens and Velázquez all followed in delivering images of fantastic sovereignty, the prince’s hand nonchalantly reining his great horse even or especially in the...
...Focusing on gruesome motifs of Christian suffering inspired by the Counter-Reformation in Spain, its themes extend way beyond religious art....
...This year it is the turn of French sculptor, photographer and installation artist Christian Boltanski....
...Among the notches on its belt is the sale of Velázquez’s “Rokeby Venus” (1648-1651) to the National Gallery in 1906....
...Whether or not Velázquez painted any of the polychromed figures that survive from the time is, frustratingly, unknown....
...THE HORSE: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art by Tamsin Pickeral Merrell ₤29.95, 288 pages From Lascaux cave paintings to Elisabeth Frink via ancient Egypt, 13th-century China, Uccello, Velazquez, Rubens...
...Jordan’s Juan van der Hamen y Leon (Yale £50) introduces a dazzling colourist, a contemporary of Velazquez, long-overshadowed and on show in Madrid. Russia!...
...Three centuries earlier, another work by a Spaniard that revolutionised art history, Velazquez’s “Las Meninas”, was instantly acclaimed as “a theology of painting”....
...In Christian tradition, this figure mocked Jesus on his way to the cross - a taunter, and a focus for anti-Semitism....
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